Overview

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

To get the enhanced connector for Qlik Sense Cloud, contact the Forward Deployed Engineering team at Alation.

This connector is used to catalog Qlik Sense Cloud as a Business Intelligence source in Alation. The connector extracts Qlik objects such as Space, Application, Sheet, Data Source, Visualization, and Visualizations’ measures and dimensions. Users will be able to search and find the Qlik objects and understand the business transformation on their data from the Alation user interface.

Team

The following administrators are required to install this connector:

• BI Admin:

  • Provides the Qlik URI

  • Provides the Qlik account with admin privilege

• Alation Server Admin:

  • Installs the connector

  • Creates a BI source

  • Configures the BI source

Scope

The table below describes the dependencies and operations supported by the connector.

Feature	Scope	Availability
BI Server version	1.0.3 onwards	Yes
Alation version	2024.1.4 onwards	Yes
Metadata extraction	Extract the metadata in Object Mapping	Yes
Report Lineage	Intra-system lineage - Example: Table to Sheet to Visualization	Yes
Cross System Lineage	End-to-end lineage at the system level from the RDBMS data source to the Qlik data source. Example: a Snowflake Table to Qlik Table	Yes
File-based Lineage	Lineage of data stored in files - Example QVDs, QVXs, Excel	No
Permission Mirroring	Replicate Qlik Space level permissions into Alation	Yes
Link to Source System	Navigation(navigation link to the object in Qlik	Yes
Selective Extraction	Ability to apply filters on Spaces/Projects	Yes
Full Extraction	Ability to run full extraction on the Qlik instance	Yes

Object Mapping

The diagram and table below describe which metadata objects are extracted by this connector and how they are mapped to objects in Alation.

Qlik Type	Alation Type	Qlik Endpoint	Description
Space	BI Folder	/api/v1/spaces	Space is a central concept in the Qlik platform and is used to control access to various other resources in the system. Connector retrieves all Spaces that the user has access to.
App	BI Folder	/api/v1/apps	Apps are the resource used when interacting with Qlik apps. The Connector retrieves all Apps that the user has access to
Sheet	Dashboard	WebSocket API	Connector retrieves the details about sheets.
Visualization	Report	WebSocket API	Connector retrieves the handle for Sheets and extracts the layout for the sheet.
Data Source	BI Datasource	WebSocket API	Connector will extract all the Database Connections used by an application. Also extracts details of Database connections like host, port, etc. and Tables/Fields in that Database Connection. Gets all the Tables/Fields for given application.